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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Richard L AbelPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.954kg ISBN: 9780195374230ISBN 10: 0195374231 Pages: 584 Publication Date: 04 December 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Replaced By: 9780199772872 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Trust and Betrayal Part One: Neglect 2. Juggling Too Many Balls 3. Practicing Immigration Law in Filene's Basement 4. The Overachiever Part Two: Fees 5. Bleak House in America 6. The Perils of Perfectionism Part Three: Excessive Zeal 7. The Purloined Papers 8. Restoring Trust Notes References IndexReviews<br> Richard Abel has produced an interesting and provocative book. Anyone interested in the nature of lawyers' work, and the problems lawyers can create for themselves in carrying out that work, will be interested in what Abel shows in his case studies. <br>-Law and Politics Book Review, June 2009<p><br> Drawing on detailed records of six disciplinary proceedings and on an extensive body of theoretical literature, Abel considers the structural causes of systemic moral failure in the legal profession. He argues that typical measures to deal with ethical lapses by lawyers are ineffective and concludes that the monopoly power enjoyed by attorneys in the United States must be drastically contracted. <br><br>-Law & Social Inquiry, Fall 2009<p><br> """Richard Abel has produced an interesting and provocative book. Anyone interested in the nature of lawyers' work, and the problems lawyers can create for themselves in carrying out that work, will be interested in what Abel shows in his case studies."" -Law and Politics Book Review, June 2009 ""Drawing on detailed records of six disciplinary proceedings and on an extensive body of theoretical literature, Abel considers the structural causes of systemic moral failure in the legal profession. He argues that typical measures to deal with ethical lapses by lawyers are ineffective and concludes that the monopoly power enjoyed by attorneys in the United States must be drastically contracted."" -Law & Social Inquiry, Fall 2009" <br> Richard Abel has produced an interesting and provocative book. Anyone interested in the nature of lawyers' work, and the problems lawyers can create for themselves in carrying out that work, will be interested in what Abel shows in his case studies. <br>-Law and Politics Book Review, June 2009<br> Author InformationRichard L. Abel is a Professor of Law at the UCLA Law School, where he helps operate the UCLA Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. Before he taught at UCLA, he was a professor at Yale Law School, from 1969-1974, during which he was a lawyer with New Haven Legal Assistance Association. Professor Abel graduated from Columbia Law School in 1965, after which he practiced law in the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law in Jackson, Mississippi. He was also a Marshall Scholar and Foreign Area Fellow in London and Nairobi, attaining his Ph.D in African customary law. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |